The first bundle of highway projects to be awarded through the toll-operate-transfer (TOT) route involving 10 stretches – six highways along the East Coast in Andhra Pradesh and part of the Golden Quadrilateral (GQ) – the busy Kolkata-Chennai route and the remaining four located in Gujarat, are estimated to be valued at Rs 6,000 crore, as per ICRA.

The National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) is planning to tap innovative financing modes for projects and rope in foreign pension funds and other entities such as equity investors to fund mega-highway projects for reducing overall costs.

The National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) has issued a Letter of Award (LoA) to Larsen and Toubro for the Package-4 of Dwarka Expressway from Basai RoB to NH-8 – SPR intersection in Haryana on EPC under the Bharatmala programme.

Even though work has started on all four reaches of Nagpur Metro, it has acquired 68 per cent of private land required so far. It needs to acquire 20,850 sq m private land, of which 6,630 sq m remains.

The Indian Railways is planning to announce high-speed train corridors construction plan worth Rs 10 lakh-crore. The plan is to connect all major cities in the country, covering almost 10,000 km along the lines of the government’s Bharatmala highways development programme.

The National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) has issued a Letter of Award (LoA) to GHV India. This is for construction of the Gagaria-Baori Kalan-Serwa-Bakhasar section of NH-925 and Sata-Gandhav Section of NH-925A in the state of Rajasthan.